- PART I: SEARCH BASICS
- CHAPTER 1, Search Engines and How They Work
- CHAPTER 2, Unique Keywords
- CHAPTER 3, Basic Search Tools
- CHAPTER 4, Tips and Techinques
- PART II: THE BIG SIX SEARCH ENGINES
- CHAPTER 5, AltaVista
- CHAPTER 6, Google
Google was created at Stanford in 1998. Google has the largest database of all of the leading search engines. Goolgle uses not only it's database but also the Web Directory from the Open Directory Project. Google is the only search engine that indexes the full text of PDF files. Use of Boolean operators are limited, but Google still does a good job of searching.Both yahoo and Netscape uses Google's database. Google is a play on the word googol, coined in 1938 by an mathematician's 9yr old son, it means 1 followed by 100 zeros.
Of the page specific search options, the links is the most useful, Webmasters and creators use this to get a handle on a site's popularity.Google, Inc.
Mountain View, cailf.
650-330-0100
www.google.com- THE GOOGLE HOME PAGE
uses a spider called GooglBot, searches for keywords,
phrases, uses link analysis and datamining to
rank results. not as much control of searches, only
OR ( all CAPS ) is allowed, use 2-3 keywords.
The number of other sites that link to your site puts you
higher on the search results. not case sensitive.
"I'm feeling lucky" takes you to the first web page directly. - SEARCHING WITH GOOGLE
table 6.1 shows the google quick reference guide - USING ADVANCED SEARCH
To enteran advanced search query:
To search for similar pages or links:
to do specialized searches: - CUSTOMIZING GOOGLE
To customize Google:
- THE GOOGLE HOME PAGE
- CHAPTER 7, HotBot
- CHAPTER 8, Lycos
- CHAPTER 9, Northern Light
- CHAPTER 10,Yahoo
- PART III: OTHER GENERAL-PURPOSE SEARCH ENGINES
- CHAPTER 11, AOL Search
- CHAPTER 12, Excite
- CHAPTER 13, MSN Search
- CHAPTER 14, NetscapeSearch
- PART IV: SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINES
- CHAPTER 15, Deja for Newsgroups Searches
- CHAPTER 16, Topica for Mailing list Searches
- CHAPTER 17, Argus Clearing House
- CHAPTER 18, Infospace People-finding Tools
- CHAPTER 19, Zip2 for Business Searches
- CHAPTER 20, Other Search Tools from A to Z
- APPENDIX A: SEARCH ENGINES QUICK REFERENCE
- APPENDIX B: INTERNET DOMAINS and COUNTRY CODES
- APPENDIX C: USENET NEWSGROUP HIERARCHIES
- APPENDIX D: WEB SEARCHER'S TOOLKIT
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